“Mr. Sánchez plays with unforced please visit www.davidsanchezmusic.com. authority and a searching, smoldering cadence.” - The New York Times

David Sánchez [photo by Devin DeHaven]

Grammy Award–winning saxophonist David Sánchez, one of the finest progressive players on the jazz scene, will appear with his quartet at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan on Thursday, February 4th through Saturday, Ferbruary 6th. David’s 2008 album Cultural Survival was the latest in a bountiful discography (eight albums as a leader plus sideman appearances with Danilo Perez, Roy Haynes, Kyle Eastwood, and many more). David Sánchez's quartet includes Lage Lund on guitar, Orlando Le Fleming on bass, and Antonio Sanchez on drums.

Fred Hersch©Andrea Canter

Since his first appearances as leader and soloist nearly twenty-five years ago, jazz piano master Fred Hersch has earned critical accolades as: “a master who plays it his way" (Ben Ratliff,  The New York Times); “a pristine pianist with a poet’s soul--a pair of qualities that combine to especially dazzling effect" (Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe); "a brilliant technician, a thoughtful, elegant improviser and an artist with a curious ear” (Fernando Gonzalez, The Miami Herald); “...one of the leading lights of this generation's pianists” (Fred Bouchard, Jazz Times); “one of the most sensitive and genuinely lyrical players in jazz” (Bob Blumenthal, The Atlantic Monthly); "...a constantly inventive soloist” (Leonard Feather, The Los Angeles Times); and simply, “...a poet of a pianist.”(Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker). Despite health crises in 2008 that threatened his life as well as career, Fred Hersch released two acclaimed recordings in 2009 and garnered praise for residencies at Jazz Standard in April and at the Village Vanguard in July. Now he returns to the Vanguard to kickoff another year of performing, in the stellar company of Drew Gress and Paul Motian, January 12-17.